Learning from those who risk their lives

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Excerpt: What is safety? We use the word so casually we tend to forget its basic definitions. It is the state of being secure from liability, harm, injury, danger, or risk. It’s the quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss. It’s the action of being careful to avoid danger. Hailo LLC ma …

Simulating the Turbine-Simulating the Site

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Excerpt: Designing the most efficient and effective wind turbine calls for modeling tools that provide accurate, reliable numerical predictions of wind-turbine rotor performance over a machine’s full range of operating conditions. Simulating real-world conditions using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) le …

How to recognize drivetrain defects

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Excerpt: A Wind Turbine Drivetrain Diagnostics Simulator (WTDS) generates wind-turbine-drivetrain faults so users can learn to recognize signatures in a controlled environment. The setup lets users learn signatures of drivetrain component faults such as gear surface wear, cracks, chips, and missing teeth. By …

Manufacturer for large bearings

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Excerpt: Kaydon Bearings Division can manufacturer bearing to support critical pitch, yaw and gearbox applications in systems from 200 kW to 5.0 MW and above. The company has been producing large-diameter custom bearings for over 60 years and has design and manufacturing experience in many applications. …

Modular bearing for planetary wind turbine gearboxes

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Excerpt: Bearing specialist NKE Austria has developed a modular bearing system for planetary gears in wind turbine gearboxes. The modular concept is based on single-row cylindrical roller bearings of the company’s RN range, which do not have an outer ring. These bearings are equipped with a one-piece solid …

Cutting tools for wind turbine manufacturing

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Excerpt: The Emuge Wind Power program offers an extensive line of tools for the production of wind turbine components. The most efficient and cost-effective machining of parts in today’s turbines call for high-quality tooling developed by continuous improvements in components and materials. For cutting top …

Simulation programs for the renewable-energy industry

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Excerpt: A range of simulation programs under the Ansys brand can models problems and equipment frequently encountered in the renewable energy industry. For wind turbines, the developer’s software models offshore wind-turbine foundations including fatigue and wave and current structure interaction; blade, …

New blue foam for casting patterns

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Excerpt: Casting patterns in wax have worked OK for centuries as long as part had thick walls and were not too complex. And don’t drop one. The lost wax technique has gotten and update with recent developments from FOPAT, a division of buyCastings.com. FOPAT, for Foam Pattern, developed a two-part purple f …

Supply chain database for wind

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Excerpt: A wind energy supply chain advisory group has launched the web-based WIND Energy Supply Chain Database and Mapping System. The industry resource features an interactive map and searchable supply-chain database with profiles of more than 1,000 manufacturers and supporting organizations in the U.S., C …

18,000 core parts online

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Excerpt: JW Winco offers a catalog with some 18,000 core items, standard parts, and engineering guidelines in about 1,000 color pages. A current line of modernly designed, ergonomically shaped, standard components, and its most recent patented products give equipment designed by others a 21st century look, f …